Twinkle Fire

Use of twinkle fire on cardinal sea marks

Under glitter fire refers to a particular form of beacons , in which the light phenomena are always shorter than the dark phases.

Twinkle fires have about 50 to 60 light phenomena per minute and are marked with "Fkl." In nautical charts. or English "Q" for quick (Q / Fkl.).

In the description of the sea charts, a distinction is made between "Q / Fkl." for twinkle fire with constant twinkling and "IQ / Flk. unt." with interrupted twinkling (English: Interrupted Quick), with a defined return which serves to distinguish between several simultaneously visible twinkling fires.

There are also fast sparkling lights (VQ / SFkl.) With 100 to 120 light phenomena and, more rarely, ultra-sparkling lights (UQ / UFkl.) With 200 to 240 light phenomena per minute. With them, too, the phases of light appearing are shorter than the dark phases.

Sparkling fires are mostly used to mark danger spots in the cardinal system . The different speeds of the individual sparkling lights are used in particular to reliably distinguish between marking points that are close together.

See also: identifier (beacon)

Web links

• Simulation of beacons
• Course in sports boat license lake

literature

• Kurt Graf, Dietrich Steinicke: The official sports boat license lake. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-7688-3486-5 , ISBN 978-3-7688-2539-9 , ISBN 978-3-7688-1496-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of beacons and signal points, Part II, Waters between the Baltic and North Sea, No. 2101, 1972, German Hydrographic Institute Hamburg